Prisons failing to net offenders

IN 2002, Arizona school teacher Morton Robert Berger became the latest in what has become a very long line of men accused of child pornography possession.

Prisons failing to net offenders

Investigators found a large collection of images that he had amassed over the previous six years. He was charged with 35 specimen counts of sexual exploitation of a minor with each charge relating to one image. Of those charges, 15 were dropped and Berger was convicted by a jury of the remaining 20 counts against him.

For each of those counts – equivalent to one image – he was sentenced to 10 years in prison. That is a total of 200 years.

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